Folding Screens

Decorative Folding Screens

Beautiful compositions with flowers are the more popular subject matter encountered most frequently on
decorative folding screens. Birds and flowers traditionally were used to decorate the front as well as back of screens.
Folding screens depict the cheerfulness of nature and tenderness of spring blossoms. With hand-painted
decorative screens you can transform a mundane, mediocre atmosphere into a joyful expression of your love of life.

Unique folding screens will help you carry all the accumulated wonder, mystery, and energy of nature indoors with you.
Any of the folding screens introduced on this page will make the transformation from outdoors in as seamless as possible.
Decorative folding screens on which birds and flowers are depicted together usually have one large central composition.
Most of decorative screens have a horizontal design and attention is often focused on a blossoming tree at the center of
the screen around which birds are gathered. This type of decorative screens will add softness to your home decor that is
heavenly soothing. Some of the folding screens have design composition that is vertical. In this case each panel of the
folding screen has a distinct original design.

Decorative screens with nature scenes feature restful colors that encourage a relaxed atmosphere. There are a lot of
places that you wish to visit. You may not reach them, but you can look on your beautiful folding screen and see their
beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead.

The pure colors of nature featured on the folding screens are nourishing and rejuvenating. The harmony you feel in your
home is a reflection of the harmony you create around you. If your home feels right to you, it is right for you. Folding
screens with nature scenes are fulfilled with intrinsic integrity and enduring superiority. Among hand-painted screens
with nature scenes you will find beautiful English landscapes, Venetian scenes and Genre subjects. The external, intangible
qualities of beauty and character of hand-painted screens - room dividers will reward you with pleasurable feelings and
deep satisfaction day after day. You will gain strengths, comfort and joy from the hand painted art depicted on the room
dividers. Folding screens are finely detailed yet delicate and airy.

Stunning hand-crafted four-panel folding wood screen features elegant flowers, blossoming trees and cheerful birds on a silver-plated background. Weaving blooming trees running from one screen's panel to the next creating a cohesive design. Two intertwining trees painted on each panel of the folding screen. The first tree is a strong and mature with flourishing blossoms and fruits; the second tree is light and young with fruits or blossoms. This combination of trees represents the interaction between generations. Because the fruits and their blossoms appear in clusters, it is traditionally symbolic of a
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Lavishly painted with floral motives decorative screens will certainly bring a fresh and cheerful atmosphere into any
room. Folding room dividers with flowers, vines, trees and outdoor scenes will bring the outside in and are popular for
that reason. If you love flowers, you can make them permanent in your everyday life by using hand-painted screens in your
design. Folding screens with flowers will uplift your spirit and the spirits of your love ones. Beautiful room dividers
with floral design allow you to bring the freshness and beauty of the outdoors inside. Delicate colors of the decorative
screens invoke a sense of calm and rejuvenation. Floral and garden setting arrangements are depicted on 3 or 4 panel
folding screens in width of 72 or 80 inches.

Following ancient artistic traditions most of the floral design screens do not have a single large central scene. Each panel
of this decorative screens presets own original composition. It was generally assumed that the hand painted flower motifs
on the decorative screens represented the month of the year. Often images of flowers painted on the decorative screens have
a symbolic meaning as well. In China mining is determine by combination of flowers and other objects. Magpie and plum
blossoms, for example, symbolize eternal happiness; mandarin ducks and peonies represent married bliss. More often painted
flowers are symbolizing the month of the year. For example, plum blossoms - January, magnolias - May, chrysanthemums -
October. Often combination of trees represents season. Pine, bamboo and plum tree are recognized as three friends of winter.
Flowers represent seasons as well - plum blossoms for winter, chrysanthemum for fall, and lotus for summer, and peony for
spring.

folding screens in today's interiors
Open plans of today's interiors with the zoning principles explains a new revival of
folding screens and there extreme popularity. When living space had to be divided into the functional zones. Nothing could accomplish this task better than use of folding screens with there incredible versatility, mobility, adjustability, and esthetic value. It's made a perfect sense to use folding screens instead of the complicated in construction sliding or folding doors (by the way, they barely hold any esthetic value). Folding screens do not require any installation, you can fold it, move it, or
place in another room any time you want...
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folding screens in Europe
Some believe that folding screens were introduced to Europe by Marco Polo, who brought them to Italy from his expedition to China. Decorative folding screens instantly caught attention because of there size, beauty and immediately discovered multifunctional qualities. Moreover the uncomplicated construction of the folding screens could be easily reproduced by native masters. Portable decorative screens made their way into the huge dreary rooms of Gothic castles. These first European folding
screens were build from chunky oak planks ...
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